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Associated Press - December 4, 2008
Las Vegas police say work will begin Saturday to package all impounded patient files so they may be released back to the Gastroenterology Center of Nevada and its various locations.
Police anticipate the files will be released to patients by January 2009.
In February, police and health officials seized records from six of the center's locations.
They were investigating the center and its founder, Dr. Dipak Desai. Desai also owned the majority of The Endoscopy Clinic of Southern Nevada where 40,000 patients were potentially exposed to hepatitis C and HIV through contaminated vials.
Desai has since been barred from practicing medicine in Nevada and faces disciplinary hearings by the medical board.
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